John Hatch is the founder of FINCA, one of the world's leading microcredit institutions with programs in 23 countries and over one million low-income families assisted since its inception in 1984. John is also known as the father of "village banking", a group loan methodology now replicated by over 800 micro-credit programs in 60 countries.

In addition to his management duties at FINCA, John directed field research for 10 years by summer interns armed with Palm Pilots who interviewed over 3,000 clients per year to document their poverty levels, business profitability, and rising living standards. John also continues to serve as co-founder and executive committee member of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a global effort to reach 175 million of the world’s poorest mothers with self-employment loans by the year 2015. He has given microcredit workshops and lectured widely at universities in the US and abroad. 

John earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1973.  John's economic development career spans 44 years, during which time he was a Peace Corps volunteer and staff member, Fulbright scholar, economist, and a consultant to small farmer development projects in some 50 countries.

Following his retirement in 2007, John now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he pursues a lifelong interest in water coloring, has finished a screenplay, continues his public speaking activities, and actively campaigns for an end to global poverty by the year 2025.

President, Making Cents International

Fiona is committed to creating a legacy of improved skills and economic opportunities at the individual, community, and global levels. She is the Founder and President of Making Cents International, a specialized consulting and training firm based in Washington, D.C. that equips adults with the vision, confidence, and skills to create and grow their own businesses. Under her leadership, Making Cents has emerged as a leader in the development of the youth microenterprise sector by creating learning opportunities and networks that inspire youth, practitioners, policy makers, and funders to more effectively share and develop programs, policies, and partnerships to impact youth's economic opportunities.

Social Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Enterprise Mentors, HELP International, and UNITUS Microfinance Accelerator

Warner Woodworth is a social entrepreneur and professor of organizational behavior at the Marriott School, Brigham Young University. He has been a leader in the global movement to prepare a new generation of college-age social entrepreneurs for fighting poverty. Using his courses and the university as a social enterprise incubator, he has spun off over 40 humanitarian projects in the past 15 years--providing capacity-building mechanisms such as literacy, healthcare, microfinance, appropriate technology, worker-owned co-ops, etc. Over the last decade, Warner has been a founder, board chair, or director of Enterprise Mentors, HELP International, and the Unitus acceleration model that has become so spectacular, as well as 13 other NGOs that have established income-generating family microenterprises for self-reliance in 22 countries.   Collectively, Warner, his students, and their associated NGOs have raised over $10 million for microfinance, trained 140,000 microentrepreneurs in small business skills, and served more than a million impoverished microcredit clients in India, Mexico, Kenya, the Philippines, and other countries—in 2006 alone.